Allawayh al-Asar () (or Alluya; flourished ) was a singer of

Sogdia Sogdia (Sogdian language, Sogdian: ) or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian peoples, Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also ...

n origin at the Abbasid court of Harun al-Rashid and his successors. His grandfather, a captive from Sogdia, was a "freedman" ('' mawla'') in Umayyad times. Allawayh al-Asar was a student of

Ibrahim al-Mawsili Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī (; 742–804) was an Arab musician of Persian origin who was among the greatest composers of the early Abbasid period. After Arab and Persian musical training in Ray, Iran, Ray, he was called to the Abbasid ...

; in contemporaneous sources, he, Ishaq al-Mawsili (son of Ibrahim al-Mawsili) and

Mukhariq Abu’l-Muhannāʾ Mukhāriq ibn Yaḥyā ibn Nāwūs () (), was one of the most distinguished singers of the Abbasid period, and a protege of the Barmakids and the caliphs from Harun al-Rashid to al-Wathiq. Life He was born in Madma (although ...

were often mentioned together. Allawayh was fond of the style introduced by Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi, and, according to

D. M. Dunlop Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909–1987) was a renowned British orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history. Early life and education Born in England, Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul Ernst Kahle (1875–1965). ...

: "Perhaps we are to see in his introduction of Persian elements into the old Arabic music some indication of national preference". However, by the following century, according to the '' Kitab al-Aghani'', the so-called "traditionalist views" of Ishaq al-Mawsili "held the field". Despite his initial allegiance to Ishaq's conservative musical traditions, Allawayh eventually joined the progressive musical faction of Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi.

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* * {{Medieval Perso-Arab music 850s deaths Sogdian people 9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Courtiers from the Abbasid Caliphate Singers of the medieval Islamic world 9th-century Iranian people 9th-century musicians Year of birth uncertain Musicians from the Abbasid Caliphate